Eclipse with Maven plugin does not work with latest revisions, but works with older ones

Question

I have a simple project that uses Spring AOP. It uses annotation from AspectJ. The project is in Maven and it compiles ok with aspectjtools-1.7.4. With aspectjtools-1.8.9 it fails to see accept annotation @Aspect imported from org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Aspect. The same project gives no problems with Gradle and same JARs.

Why would my code not work with latest revision of AspectJ, but works ok with older one?

I am attaching pom.xml:

    <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
      <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

      <groupId>com</groupId>
      <artifactId>aspectjproblem</artifactId>
      <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
      <packaging>jar</packaging>

      <name>aspectjproblem</name>
      <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

      <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
      </properties>

      <dependencies>
        <dependency>
          <groupId>junit</groupId>
          <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
          <version>3.8.1</version>
          <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
          <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
          <version>4.3.3.RELEASE</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
          <groupId>junit</groupId>
          <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
          <version>4.11</version>
          <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
            <artifactId>aspectjtools</artifactId>

            <!-- WITH 1.8.9: FAILS to see org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Aspect  -->
            <!-- <version>1.8.9</version> -->

            <!-- WITH 1.7.4: SEES OK: org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Aspect  --> 
            <version>1.7.4</version>
        </dependency>        
        </dependencies>
      </project>

I guess it must have something to do with compliance-levels or similar things. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Many thanks.

Answer 1

It took me a while to understand what was the issue. I tried moving to Java8 and I played with dependencies. The problem I had was:

- Invalid LOC header (bad signature)

What means I guess Maven downloaded a corrupted file. I deleted it from repo (e.g. C:\Users\$USER.m2\repository\org\aspectj\aspectjtools ), updated maven and all started working again.